Sangay Khandu is a Member of Parliament in the National Council of Bhutan. He is a member of the parliamentary committee on Good Governance and has served as the Deputy Chairperson and also as Chairperson of the Committee.

Subi Chaturvedi is an activitist- academician and an award winning filmmamer and photographer. Currently an assistant professor of journalism and communication at the Lady Shri Ram COllege for Women, Delhi University, she is also an active research scholar at the Indian Institute of technology. She is widely published on New Media Technology, its social shaping and impact of internet on society and issues of global governance. Her areas of intervention are freedom of expression, gender, culture, technology, new media, global Internet Governance and policy.

Mr. Zhiyong LIU is a professorate senior engineer (MBA and M.E), and specialist who receives the special government allowance granted by the State Council. He is now serving as the General Director of China Telecom System Intergration Co.,Ltd. and Associate Professor of School of Telecom, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Ko Fujii is Google’s Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs for Japan. He oversees all of Google’s public policy issues in Japan including privacy, security, copyright, and child protection. Prior to joining Google in 2010, Ko was a public relations consultant at Fleishman-Hillard Japan, focusing on public affairs and government relations for the ICT industry. He also specialized in crisis management.

Nizar Zakka is a Lebanese national, educated in USA. He graduated from Texas University in 1990 with dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. He subsequently served as a software consultant to Brown & Root based in Houston, Texas. Following his return to Lebanon, he founded several ICT and e-business solution companies, and served as a consultant to numerous public and private sector ICT initiatives in Lebanon and the Middle East.

Chair of the Board of the Pacific Chapter of the Internet Society, and has been involved in PICISOC since 2006; In 2004, after 15 years in distance education with The Correspondence School in New Zealand, moved to the Cook Islands Ministry of Education to facilitate distance learning for students in outer islands schools; Advocated for the initial connection of internet services to schools and communities in the outer islands and over time TelecomCI has continued to improve their access via broadband, wifi and mobile services; Managed development projects including t

Dr Michael Eldred, gained two Science degrees, majoring in mathematics, in 1974 and 1975, followed by studies in philosophy at the University of Sydney, culminating in a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. His studies were supported by scholarships from the Australian Government (1970-75), the University of Sydney (1978/79 & 1982-84) and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service 1980-81). His Pure Mathematics thesis investigated the theory of mathematical theories within a category-theoretic framework and he was employed in Sydney as a mathematician.